Closet-bowl seat.



No. 812,480. PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

J. M. BRYANT B J. B. ALLEN'.

oLosBT BOWL SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAILS, 1905.

z SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906.

J. M. BRYANT & J. B. ALLEN.

GLOSET BOWL SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED MAILS, 1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

@rra STATES FA'IENT FFIOE.

JOHN M. BRYANT AND JAMES B. ALLEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CLOSET-BOWL SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

To all whom it may can/cern:

Be it known that we, JOHN M. BRYANT and JAMES B. ALLEN, citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closet-Bowl Seats; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptlon of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to closet-bowls, and has for its object to provide an improved seat therefor adapted for use by both adults and children or infants. v

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate our invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view with some parts broken away, showing the improved seat mechanism a plied to a water-closet bowl of the type having elevated tanks. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the arts shown in Fig. 1, some .parts being bro en away. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2, but showing different adjustments of the seat. Fig. 4 is a plan view corres onding to Fig. 1, but illustrating a modified orm of the seat mechanism adapted for application to a closet-bowl having a low-down tank. Fi 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in `ig. 4, some parts being broken away; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same parts, but showing the parts in diHerent positions.

Referring first to the construction illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the numeral 1 indicates the closet-bowl, and the numeral 2 indicates the flushing-pipe which leads thereto from an elevated tank. (Not shown.) The numeral 3 indicates the usual seat, which is hinged to the rear portion of the bowl by hinges 4 and is provided with a hole or opening 33L of the usual size. The numeral 5 indicates what corresponds to the usual seatcover, the same being hinged to the seat 3 by hinges 6. In accordance with our invention this member 5 is converted into a su lemental seat by providing the same with a hole or o ening 5 that is relatively small as compare with the seat hole or opening 3a of the main seat 3. A cover 7 for the seat-opening 5&is connected to the supplemental seat 5 by hin es 8. In this construction, as is evident, t e cover 7 when turned downward serves to close the hole in the supplemental seat 5, and the said cover 7, together with the so-called supplemental seat 5, affords a two-part cover for closing the hole in the mam seat 3. When the device is to be used for infants or small children, only the cover 7 1s turned upward, and the main seat 3 and supplemental seat 5 are turned downward, as shown'in Fig. 2, and the said cover 7 serves as a back to the seat afforded for the child. As a further support or means for holding a small child on the seat raised side rails 9 of curved form are rigidly secured to the supplemental seat 5 on the opposite sides of the hole 5a. The forward ends of these side rails 9 terminate far enough apart to permit room between them for the legs of the child when placed upon the said seat. The rear portions of the side rails 9 are preferably so terminated that they afford stops for limiting the vbackward movement of the cover 7 to substantially the position shown in Fig. 2. When the device is to be used by an adult, the supplemental seat 5 and cover 7 are together turned upward and backward against the fiushing-pipe 2, as shown in Fig. 3, and in this position it will be noted that the upper portions of the side rails 9 embrace the sides of the flushing-pipe 2.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 4 to 6, inclusive, the bowl 1 is shown as provided with a low-down flushing-tank 10; but the same main seat 3, supplemental seat 5, and cover 7 are employed, and the said parts are constructed and mounted in the same manner as already described, but in lieu of the fixed side rails, however, folding side r'ails are provided, said side rails being made up of curved side bars 11 and links 12, pivotally connected, the former to the cover 7 and the latter to the supplemental seat 5. To securely hold the cover 7 in an upright position approximately as shown in Fig. 5, a lockplunger 13 is mounted in a keeper 14 on said cover, and the sup lemental seat 5 at its rear portion is provide with a perforation or seat 15, into which said plunger is adapted to be forced, as also shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 5 shows the device adjusted for use by an infant or small child, while Fig. 6 illustrates the device adjusted for use by an adult.

In the osi# tion of the parts shown in Fig. 5 the foliding side rails are projected above the su plemental seat v5, while in the position o the ICO IIO

arts shown in Fig. 6 the said side rails are olded against the supplemental seat 5 and in the same lane as the cover 7.

The ut' ity of the device above described is thought to be obvious. It adds but very slightly to the cost of the seat and cover as usually constructed and makes unnecessary the use of Se arate closet-bowls for the use of' children an infants.

From what has been Said it Will be understood that the device described is capable of modification within the scope of our invention as herein set forth and claimed.

What We claim, and desire to secure by :lLetters Patent of the United States, iS as fol- OWS:

1. The combination with a closet-bowl, of a main seatl havin a relatively large hole, a

sup lemental'seat inged thereto and havin a re atively small hole, a cover hinged to sai supplemental seat and adapted to be turned upward to form a seat-back, and side rails applied to said supplemental scat and movable into operative position when and only when said supplemental seat is moved into o erative Osition, Substantially as describe 2. he combination With a closetowl, of a main seat havin a relatively large'hole, a sup lemental seat inged thereto and havin a re atively small hole, a cover hinged to sai supplemental seat and adapted to be turned upward to form a seat-back, and folding side rails made up of sections pivotally connected With each other and pivotally attachedfthe one section to Said su plemental seat and the other to said cover, substantiall as described.

In testimony whereof We a 'X our Signatures in presence of tWo Witnesses.

, JOHN M. BRYANT'. JAMES B. ALLEN.

Witnesses:

NICHOLAS J. FLEMING, JOSEPH S. MODOWELL. 

